Extremely obscure GTA details that may or may not exist?

[Carbonox]

OK, this is something that's been living rent free in my head for too long because of my inability to find confirmation, and because these "myths" are just barely plausible enough that they might exist in the games. Plz help find closure, fellow gamerz.

 

This is kind of a GTAF meta myth situation too because both of these are things I distinctly remember reading on these forums, but never made a bookmark of them or anything, and now I can literally not find them again with the search (and, for the record, my search woes are long gone, so that's not the issue). The time when I saw these posts, let alone the date they were actually posted, came way before DE so these won't at least be specific to that version. No idea what version the posters in question played though.

 

The first was some off-hand mention that in GTA 3, if using the cinematic camera in some specific spot, you'd actually see your car through the security camera feed instead of the regular view. Maybe the poster specified a location, maybe not, but it might've been near the Staunton Ammu-Nation? Still, this is where I did my own research and explored a bunch of the city hoping to find that spot, including all Bank of Liberty branches, to no avail. The security cam filter does exist at least in the opening cutscene, but would Rockstar go through the trouble of adding this type of special view into gameplay too? Only for no one but a single GTAF post to find it within the next 20 years? I even struggle to recall if the guy ever talked about a security cam filter? Maybe the view was just from the side of the building, maybe even a physical security camera assuming any models like that exist (let alone moving ones), but without any filter? Beats me honestly, but drives me crazy all the same. Could've even not been 3 at all, but LCS...

 

Secondly, I faintly recall someone in the SA forum said they had a unique busted scenario where they were parachuting from high up with a police helicopter nearby, and while still airborne, they got busted indicating that repeated close proximity to the ghetto bird mid-descent could make that happen. It is a vulnerable position and all, but would R* have really coded it in? I've not gone out to confirm this yet as it's probably a bit harder to set up too, but like with case #1, just finding the missing-in-action forum post would be a game changer.

 

EDIT: Holy sh*t, the second one exists after all. Could've just been a glitch though, maybe Strauss resolved it.

Edited July 20 by Carbonox

[universetwisters]

I feel like for the first one, the guy might just be misremembering something in VC. I know III had fixed camera angles for some places like the gun stores and the bathrooms in the park, but rockstar really didn’t start playing with filters until VC

 

Either that or someone 20 years ago thought it’d be funny to lie on the internet